IT WAS THE SMELL that got me. Normally, a cup of coffee smells roasty, or meaty, or in some sad cases burnt, but this was different. This one smelled like blueberries. Not vaguely of blueberries, or ...

Prices of Arabica coffee are on a recovery mode tracking the global trend, giving respite to growers who are harvesting the crop in the key growing regions of Karnataka. The harvest, which started ...

The typical American drinks three cups of coffee a day, but the average Joe doesn’t know much about his morning cup. It takes two dozen steps for a Central American coffee cherry, the fruit that ...

Beans have travelled a long way to make your cup of coffee. Jack Fussell/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Welcome to the third instalment in our series Chemistry of Coffee, where we unravel the delicious secrets ...

Joseph Nkandu sorts the unwanted objects while his coffee is drying on a raised rack. Photo by Michael J Ssali To achieve high quality coffee production standards, farmers must carry out good crop ...

COFFEE growers in Tarime District are now optimistic that a newly introduced modern coffee drying machine from India, will improve both production and productivity in the respective area. The machine ...

A worker at the Gikanda Farmers Cooperative society spreads coffee on a new metallic drying tables. THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION/Pius Sawa As climate 'tipping points' near, scientists plan for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coffee beans go through a lot of changes before reaching your cup. The coffee-roasting process takes the original green coffee ...

Unseasonal rains over the past few days will likely spoil the party for coffee growers in Karnataka and Kerala even as robusta prices rule at near-record levels on concerns over Vietnamese supplies.

Freeze drying, also known as lyophilisation, is a common method of preservation used in many products, from the fresh herbs and vegetables that top store-bought pizzas to the instant coffee in our ...